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BY JAMES GARDNER.
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 6.
The Congressional Canvass in this Dis
trict—Mr. Jones 9 Prospects.
We bare not considered it necessary or proper
to send a reporter around the District with
Messrs Wright and Jones, the candidates for
Congress, to furnish us ex parte statements of the
discussion*between them, in which Mr. Wright
should be always represented as utterly discom
fited by Mr. Jones ; aud it has happened that we
have received an Account o£, but one discussion
between them which was intended for publication.
The Democrats of the counties in which they have
spoken have not considered it necessary to bolster
their cause with flaming accounts of the per
formances of their candidate upon the hustings.
But we are regularly advised of the progress of
the Congressional contest in this District; and
we take great pleasure in assuring our
friends that the Opposition, thus far, have
not gained an inch of ground. The Democracy
maintain every position which they Aaid at Ae
commencement of the contest, and feel ihjtt their
colors are-safe in the bands of the ataadardkboaw
to whom they have jieow-etrtftisted. The Opposi
tion journals have reported a victory for Mr.
Wright in every discussion which he has had with
Mr. Jones. The Democratic candidate, according
to their accounts, has been discomfited, crashed,
and finally swallowed every time he has met the
redoubtable champion of the Opposition. We
beg our friends in the District not to be troubled
by these alarming accounts from the seat of war.
They are only a part of the policy which the
enemy has always pursued, of bragging until
they are beat. Our accounts contradict them.
They do not represent Mr. Wright as utterly
demolished by Mr. Josfes, in every contest; but
tbev do represent the galjant standard bearer of
the Democracy, as bearing himself bravely in the
fight and winning laurels wherever Tie goes. He
has exceeded the expectations of. the Democracy
wherever he has spoken—the party everywhere
are satisfied with him, and he will go to Washing
ton with even a higher reputation for courage,
ability, and every other qualification for a Repre
sentative, than that which he enjoyed when he en
tered the canvass. So much for the Democratic
candidate.
Mr. Wright, the Opposition candidate, has lost
ground sensibly in the last week; for within that
time Mr. Jones has “fixed” him. He commenced
the canvass of the District, as an independent-no
party-people’s candidate; addressed those who went
to hear him as “Fellow Democrats” inveighed
against parties and party platforms; and was alto
gether rather difficult to locate. He was 4 ‘sloshiDg
around” on his own account. But, Mr. Jones has
fixed him, by tearing from him all his disguises,
and exposing him in his true position. He has
compelled Mr. Wright to define his position, and
now there is no chance for any voter of the District
to be mistaken about it. He is simply the candi
date of that party which has been organised with
out a creed, upon the basis of opposition to the
Democratic party alone. He denounces the Dem
ocratic party—denounces President Buchanan—
denounces Gov. Brown —and denounces the Kan
sas-Nebraska act. We are gl**d that he has. The
voters of the District will now understand that
Lis iatffyeodent candidacy, as he represent* it,
and is only a dodge to secure votes ; and that
his election would be a repudiation of the Demo
cratic Party—a repudiation of the Administra
tion of Gov. Brown —and a repudiation of the
whole course of their late distinguished Repre
sentative, Mr. Stephens, upon the subject of slavery
in the Territories, it is needless for us to say
that under these circumstances his election is
impossible. The people of the Eighth District are
not prepared virtually to repudiate the Dem
ocratic Party, President Buchanan, Governor
Brown, and A. H. Stephens, to elect A. R. Wright,
to Congress.
The Post Office Department—The way
the People are Taxed to sustain it, as
long as it is not Self-sustainiug.
The Opposition in this District do not seem to
consider it a matter of much importance that the
Post Office Department should be self-sustaining.
The following extracts from a speech delivered by
Mr. Toombs in the Senate of the United States on
the 9th of February last, will show how unequal
ly and unjustly the people are taxed to sustain ps
long as it is not self sustaining:
We insist that the man that writes aud receives
letters shall pay his own postage ; we say that it
is unjust for merchants, manufacturers, lawyers,
and lottery men, who write great numbers of let
ters, and whose business requires it, shall throw
the cost of their business upon the ptlblic treasury,
upon working men who do not, and pbrhaps can
not write letters; we neither seek nor desire that
those among whose business requirec a large use of
the post office shall compel honest toil to share with
them this part of their business. This is a de
parture from the practice of our fathers; they held
that when the government undertook the carrying
of people’s letters and newspapers that these peo
ple should pay the cost of their transportation—
that they should not throw any portion of their ex
penses on other people’s shoulders. Suppose my
friend from Pennsylvania should propose to some
honest farmer in Pennsylvania, near his post office
to hire a box together, each to pay an equal sum
of postage, when his postage would be ninety-five
per cent, to five per cent, ofhis honest friend, does
he suppose that he has a constituent out of the
madhouse who would not treat the proposition
with indignation ? Yet this is precisely the pnn
•ciple upon which our post office is now carried on.
They who write letters and send or receive news
papers, and whose business requires them to do
£O, throw the expense of their business upon
honest toil, and then write and speak and
fiend men to Congress to prate about protection
to these very laborers whom they are robbing
ander the forms of law. These very skillful,adroit,
enterprising gentleman contrive a system by which
they levy pence out of poverty to pay the legiti
tnaic expenses of tneir own business, and then
have the audacity to stand before me and claim to
be the especial friends of labor! Sir, it is mock
ery, which should be exposed by all honest men.
That this is the result of the present postal system,
is demonstrable. It is not sectional, it affects the
laborer in Maine and New York as much as it
does the laborer in Georgia. I stand here to re
sist the transfer of the burdens of commerce, man
ufactures, ami professions upon other pursuits in
Georgia, as-well as in Pennsylvania or New York.
The New York legislature sends us memorials to
fasten this burden upon their labor. I will not do
it. The Senator from New Hampshire stands up
here to grind hiS own poor for the benefit of the
rich. I will resist him, and defend the rights of
lhe humblest lahorerin New Hampshire against
this i justice. The Senator says with great plau
sibility, I do not intend to tax the poor men in my
Stale more than three cents for their letters. Well,
suppose three cents per letter does not pay the
cost of transportation, where is the rest of the cost
to come from? Out of the public treasury, of
course. Who pays that ? Government earns no
money; it only spends tbe earnings of labor.
Nearly all of our taxes are levied by duties on im
ports," which are taxes on conscmption ; rich and
poor pay according to their consumption of dutiar
ble commodities. ***** ,
The difference between the consumption of the (
poor and the rich is not at all proportioned to their ,
means of purchasing; therefore, their taxes are i
grossly unequal. Indeed, indirect taxes, all taxes,
on consumption, are unjust and unequal taxes.
They tell terribly on labor. They have destroyed
the labor of Europe, and they will destroy ours if
we keep up the system. They eat up the small
gains of the poor—the substance of the laborer —
by tolling his daily earnings in the purchase of
the necessaries of life and exempt the greater
portion of the incomes of the rich from public bur
dens. By this system, England has beggared her
laborers, who are daily fleeing to America, to Aus
tralia, and to ail _parts of the earth, to escape its
direful effects. She has abandoned protection,
but levies her revenues mainly on the consumption
of the necessaries of life, from the sweat of the
poor. Let us profit by her example. The revenues
of the State should be levied from its wealth, and
not from poverty ; therefore, a tax on property
should be substituted for a tux on consumption,
as rapidly as other public considerations will
allow of it. Let not my friend from Pennsyl
vania, then, put heavier burdens on the poor to pay
the postage of the rich. By his own account, tney
carry all—nay, even more than they are able to
bear. Spare them this additional infliction, and
go with me back to the better davs of the Repub
-1 lie, when letter writers paid for their correspond
ence and newspaper takers naid their own postage,
, an d the humble poor, who, neither |
. write nor read, were not burdened with the legiti
mate expenses of tbeir mors fortunate neighbors.
To make the man that wrr.es no liters pay Apr
those who do, whatever the New York legislature,
may say about it, whatever the Senator from New
Hampshire may say about it, is but taxing the
| poor, and it may be the unfortunate poor, for the
- benefit of the rich. But the Postmaster General
, seems to thinly that we shoula no more expect the
; Post Office Department to support itself than the
army or navy. I would tell him there is this
difference; the public defence is indivisible. We
can only apportion the expenses of these depart
. ments amoog the people justly by just taxation : if
t we could apportion these expenses according to the
I benefits received, it ought to be done. But it lies
at the foundation of civil society, that every part
* of it, every man in it, is bound with his life and
r property, the whole of it, to defend and preserve
t the State, and defend every man in the State. But
f there is nothing in civil society that requires one
man to be taxed to carry another man’s letters,
i more than there is to tax him to carry to market
J another man’s corn, wheat, cotton, or potatoes,
r Not to see this distinction, is a sufficient solution
, of o n present postal difficulties.
And lie concludes as follows:
I demand, therefore, that the post office shall
’ support itself, or be cut off from the government.
* If New England, on account of her dense popula
* turn and particular pursuits can support her pos
; tal system at a less cost than we of the South can,
let her have the benefit of it. We do not wish or
desire her money to pay for our letters. Mv friend
from Virginia, (Mr. Hunter) has presented -a pro-
I ject which will meet all such difficulties, and do
i justice to the whole country. We get an undue
share of the wastage of the post office department.
We have hitherto resisted, and now desire to sur
-1 render it as unjust. Abolish your franking privi
* lege, stop weighing down your mails with uselees
- unpaid trash, such as Globes and Patent Office .Ke
r ports, raise postage to a remunerating point, and
* if you cannot then carry on the system as cheaply
* and efficiently as it can be otherwise done, aban
* don the business, and leave the transportation of
i letters where the transportation of all other
I commodities is left, with those who have
an interest m the business. I know you
* will not do it well, and I would to day, if I
* could, sever the connection between the govern
- inent and the postal business of the people. But
, it will take some time for this plain truth to
get itself acknowledged. I am content to watch
and wait. In the meantime, labor must toil and
sweat, and bear other burdens for the sake of soft
- words from deceitful tongues. I suppose it would
» be bard for me to convince a d®* laborer at one
" of the furnaces of Pennsylvania, who has nothing
r t > carry to market, that it would be to bis interest
» to join’me and pay one-half or two thirds of the
t expense of carrying my cotton to market, and I
to pocket all the benefits of the operation ; but
that is exactly what his representatives here are
p doing for him* in regard to my letters every day
B thev sustain our present post office system.
- These are blind leaders of the blind, or men who
j see, yet perceive not. Sir, lam a friend of labor,
I honor it; I pity it; the world praises it, and robs
r it. I will give no vote to rob it of its just earnings.
* I will not wring another drop of sweat from its
» face. You need not talk to me then about a de
. ficiency of ten millions of dollars in your Post
Office Department for the next fiscal year. I will
r not vote it, I will not provide for it, and, without
» that single item, we need no increase of taxes.
Make those who use the post office pay for their
own business, aud you have no need to levy a sin
gle shilling out of labor for the next year.
Letter from Col. Akin.
, The Savannah Republican, of the Ist inst., con
, tains the subjoined letter from Col. Akin, the Op
position candidate for Governor, addressed to the
. editors of the Federal Union , which we are re
, quested to copy. We have not alluded to the
charge made against Col. Akin, id reference to the
. compensation which he has received as attorney
for the State road, nor have we copied any articles
from other papers in relation to it. We are, there
fore, under no obligation to publish his letter in
reply to the Federal Union. But, we are di-posed
to be generous to the Opposition candidate for
Governor, as we have not the slightest apprehen
sion that he will be elected, and we, therefore,pub
lish his letter f
Savannah, Aug. 31,1659.
To the Editorß of the Federal Union :
A friend has handed me your paper of the 23d
inst., containing some statements calculated to
make on the minds of your readers a false impres
sion ; and, supposing you would not intentionally
do me injustice, I call your attention to the matter,
that you may do me justice by correcting your
error.
You refer to the “Senate committee’s report,”
and say : “By that report, it will be seen that
Mr. Akin was paid for service as Attorney for the
road, at various times, the sum of four thousand
seven hundred and fifty dollars, one thousand sev
en hundred and fifty dollars more than was paid
to any other lawyer, employed by the road, in the
space of three years.” As I understand this, you
state that four thousand seven hundred and fifty
dollars were paid me for three years’ service to
the road. The truth is. I was employed by the
road in the spring of 1852; have been serving the
road, as attorney ever since, and still am serving
it—there being two important cases now pending,
one in the county of Cass, and the other in the
county of Catoosa, each of which I intend to de
fend to the end of litigation in the Superior Court.
So you perceive that, instead of having served the
road only three years, I have been in its service for
seven years and a half.
You are pleased to copy from the “Senate com
mittee’s report,” that they had “not been able to
see that the value of the service to the road is, in
eve»ycase, commensurate with the large sums
paid** lean see no object you had in view, in
making this extract from that report, unless it
was to make the impression that the committee
had said that the service rendered by me was not
“commensurate with the sum paid” me. The
committee say 41 in every case, ’ which clearly
shows that in some cases the “service” was “com
mensurate with the sum paid.” And one mem
ber of the committee has assured me that the re
marks you have quoted from their repost, were
not intended to apply to me. This I stated sub
taotiallv in a letter published in the Chronicledt
Sentind , the 31st of December last. 1
But I wish to have this matter about fees dis- <
tinctly understood. Governor Brown settled my \
account for fees, and he settled the fees of the Hon.
A. R. Wright, of Floyd, also. Judge Wright was
employed Tor the road in 1856. I was employed 1
four yearß before that time. Judge Wright was 1
employed against the road in most of the impor- \
taut cases in the Cherokee Circuit. 1 was employ- j
ed for the road in everv case except one, I believe.
Governor Brown paid Judge Wright, who is a
good Democrat and a supporter of the Governor, *
three thousand dollars, when Judge Wright had t
.AUGUSTA, GA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1859.
been in the service of the road, in some cases about ,
eighteen months. He paid me the remainder of my ,
account, tour thousand seven hundred and fifty ;
dollars, when I had been in the service of the road
in all the cases (except as above stated) four years
and a half, and am still in its service, while Judge
Wright is still opposed to the road in at least one
important case. Now, lam willing to enter into a
bond, for any reasonable sum, to take just one half
of the amount paid by Governor Brown to Judge
Wright, according to the service rendered by each
of us, to be decided by three disinterested attor
neys—Governor Brown selecting one—i one—and
those two a third ; and if I have received more
than I ought, I will pay it back to the road ; and
if I have not received half as much as Governor
Brown paid Judge Wright, the road shall still pay
it to me. Surely, lam entitled to half as muctt
as Governor Brown paid Judge Wright, taking
the service rendered by each into consideration.
Governor Brown refused to submit my account to
three disinterested attorneys and be governed by
their award. Will he refuse this proposition ? 1
make no complaint against the fees paid Judge
Wright—l only ask for half as much as Governor
Brown paid him—the service of each being con
sidered. . r
You will receive this through the Savannah Re
publican, as your paper will not appear again for
nearly a wees. But I request you will insert it in
the first issue of the Federal Union, and oblige
your obedient servant, Warren Akin.
P. S.—Will the Macon Telegraph and the Au
gusta Constitutionalist please insert the above.
W.A.
Messrs. Wright aud Jones at Lincolnton.
We invite the attention of our readers to the
account of the discussion between Messrs. Wright
and Jones, at Lincolnton, on the 27th ult.
A prominent Democrat, of Lincolnton, who was
present at this discussion, in a private note to us,
says : “Wr friends here are exulting. If Jones does
as well everywhere as he did here, we have nothing
to fear.” _
Speech of Col. Akin.
Quite a large crowd attended at Concert Hall on
Friday evening, curious to see the gentleman who
has been induced to accept the Gubernatorial
nomination of the Opposition, and to hear the first
political address delivered in this city, since the
canvass opened. That address was, with the ex
ception of a few immaterial changes, the same
which Col. Akin has delivered at Atlanta, Macon,
Savannah, and other places in the State where he
has spoken siuce his nomination. The opening
portion was filled with the cant about partyism >
party platforms, and party nominations, which is
, alwaysiu the mouths of candidates for otlice, who
i are the nominees of a minority ; and the conclud
ing portion was devoted to Federal politics,
and contained a misrepresentation of the posi
i tion of the Administration in reference to
the duty of the Government toward its natu
uralized citizens abroad—a misrepresentation
of the Cincinnati platform—a misrepresentation of
f the position of Judge Douglas and the Democratic
■ party upon the question of slavery in the Terri
tories, a denunciation of Governor Brown, for his
1 party affiliations, and a dilation of the views of B.
H. Hill’s Dudley letter, in relation to the right,
t of protection to slave property in the Territories,
► and the duty of the South, on that question, to
[ stand upon the Constitution and the law. (By the
l way, will some organ of the Opposition inform us,
1 as Col. Akin did not, what kind of protection it »»
* which he insists we {>ught to have, and how it is
* to be secured: A* we understand him, he is in
i favor of demanding additional protection, only
[ after an appeal to the courts shall prove that we
1 need it; in other words, he occupies the same posi
! tion which the Democratic party occupies; and yet
he denounces the position of the Democratic party,
, and declares that we must have protection or
* “strike for freedom.” What additional protection
* does be want, and how does he want it?) Such
\ were the peroration and exordium of Col. Akin’s
address; but the address, as a whole, may be
characterized as an indictmeut of Gov. Brown, for
! his acts and recommendations as the Execu
| tive of the State; and every charge in this
■ indictment was urged with the bitterness and
* vindictiveness of a prosecutor who has a per
sonal malice to gratify in preferring a charge.
It is true that Col. Akin disclaimed any unkind
feeling toward Gov. Brown; and announced, at the
commencement of his speech, that he would treat
him with perfect respect and courtesy. But his
whole speech was a violation of this voluntary
pledge; fort here was no portion of it in which there
was not some reflection upon the character, or ca
pacity, of his opponent, or some insinuation of
unworthy motives against him. In his manage
ment of the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
he was represented as a knave; in bis bank
policy, as a demagogue and an ass; and in
his exercise of the veto power, as an un
feeling brute. Colonel Akin called upon those
present to tell him what Joseph E. Brown had
done, that he should be re-elected Governor of the
State ? and because no one replied, he assumed
that Gov. Brown had, in the opinion of his au
dience, done nothing to entitle him to a re-election.
He declared that, in tis opinion, he had done many
things which ought to defeat his re-election ; and
proceeded to denounce his representation of his
management of the State Road as one of the ver
iest humbugs and grossest frauds which ev<jr was
imposed upon an honest and unsuspecting people,
(which he attempted to prove by showing that the
Road, during Gov. Johnson’s Administration, did
more business than it has done under that of Gov.
Brown, and that the business paid a larger profit);
his veto message, as the most ignorant and agra
rian document which has ever been issued from
the Executive Department—his scheme for giving
collegiate education to the poor, as one which
was wroing in principle, and would be worth
less in practice; and his veto of a private bill,
passed by the legislature (to make a certain
married woman a sole trader,) as one of the j
most imhuman acts upon record. Ifb also de
nounced Gov. Brown for refusing to accept the in
vitation of B. H. Hill, to leave his party nomina
tion “in abeyance,” and take his position as an in
dependent candidate, with the Constitution and 1
the law as his platform upon national questions;
and declared, that if Gov. Brown had accepted (
this invitation, he would have supported him.
We give this declaration of Col. Akin, as a better .
reply than any which we could make to all the
charges which he has made against Gov. Brown j
and his Administration. It|is a complete and unaa- 1
swerable reply; and does away with the necessity 1
for any defence of Gov. Brown upon these charges. 1
All the issues which Col. Akin makes with Gov. *
Brown are upon questions of State policy—all the r
charges which he makes against him are connect- i
ed with his Administration of the office which he l
no vr holds; but he virtually abandons all these J
charges, and declares that they, in themselves, are
not sufficient to array a single voter in this State
against Governor Brown, by saying that he would s
vote for Gov. Brown if he would get off of the
Democratic platform, and leaving the party nomi- L
Dation which he has received, in .abeyance, declare c ,
himself an independent candidate. This declara- j
tion, werepeat, is a complete and unanswerable li
*-p!y to allj the charges which Col. Akin makes
against Governor Brown, and his Administra
tion; and we will not stultify ourselves by at
tempting to defend the Executive against these
charges, when the Opposition candidate for the
Gubernatorial office, who makes them, virtually
abandons thtm, and declares that there is nothing
in them which ought to be made a ground of op
position to Gov. Brown, by saying that he would
have voted for Gov. Brown, if he had accepted the
invitation of B. 11. Hill.
We have designed in this hurried notice of the
address of Col. Akin, simply to give some idea of
its character. We shall refer to it again. In the '
meantime, in behalf of the Democracy, we must
thank Col. Akin for the flattering exhibit which
he makes in his speeches of Gov. Johnson’s Ad
ministration of the State # Road; as well as for the
many side-thrusts which he gives to the party he 1
represents, in attacking the educational policy of
Gov. Brown, and misrepresenting the position of
.Administration toward our naturalised citizens
abroad.
Geu* Pierce’s Speech.
EvJYesident Pier<s*4 on his arrival at Boston,
on the evening of the 27th ult., as announced by 1
telegraph, was serenaded at the Tremont House.
A second dispatch gives the speech he delivered
on the occasion, whichhe found be^ow:
I thank you cordially, gc-i; lenten, tor the mani
festation of your kindness wl.rdi Wscall implies.
After an absence from our shares much more pro
tracted than I had anticipated when I left them, I
found a degree of satisfaction in again planting
my foot upon New England soil quite unanticipat
ed, often and earnesly as my heart has yearned for
home. Even m these past two years many
changes have occurred; some of them national
in uhitfacter, and bearing sorrow and profound
sense of loss throughout the land.
The death of your neighbor and friend, the
statesman, orator and patriot, reached me on the
othfr side of the AtTaiuic *-n> u f. v days previous
to »*y embarkation. With all my sympathy with
thdfc* who are bound to him by the dearest of
ear. hiv ties, and whose loss is irreparable, with
all my homage for his genius, that which I felt
stir, mg at my heart with a warmer and deeper
s feepg than all besides, that which will cause nis
mefwory to be cherished by you as American citi
[ Zens, beyond mere intellectual superiority, is the
! fact that his patriotism was as steady, broad, and
: glowing as his eloquence was brilliant, and his
learning varied and profound.
\ ldo not, of course, mean to speak the language
( of eulogy, but I cannot consent to stand before
you, in the pleasure which I experience in your
kind greeting, and in being thus reminded that I
, have a place in your personal regard which neith
. <jr time nor absence is* likely to shake, and seem
for a moment to forget the great loss which you
especially, and which the nation as a whole, has
• sustained in the death of Mr. Choate.
You do not, my friends, expect anything Lke a
f speech from me to-night, and if you did, lcannot
, fittingly respond to that expectation. You will be
glad (o know that the great object of my voyage
* to Madeira, and thence to southern Europe, has
i been partially realised. For myself, I have, during
my absence, found much to enjoy, and, I will adcf,
much to admire. But, after all, 1 have come back
9 more thoroughly convinced than ever before of the
, wisdom, strength, and durability of these institu
[> tionN under which we live, and of the Constitution
e whic.' upholds them.
We have no questions of the balance of power to
• continually agitate and disturb us. We need not
« gnpprrflwfoan niom«nt’B imwmtnenß about armu
s BittC by sea or by land on the part of any foreign
q power. Whether these foreign armaments be in
ert-used or diminished—whether ..they are strong
' or weak—is to uai, us a nation, a matter of indiP
e ference.
With the great barrier of the Atlantic rolling
t between us and them, so long us we are true to
ourselves, true to our theory, true to our honor
' and dignity, and just to them, they will have no
r motive, and let me add, I believe they will have
l no inclination to interfere, even if they had the
j material might, with our onward march of peace
ful prosperity. We have only to cultivate the
4 peerless inheritance which, through the interpo
* sition and blessing of God, has descended to us;
r to recognise and gratefully acknowledge His good
. ness; to obey the laws, and first of all the funda
mental law of the land, and we cannot fail to se
| cure an unchecked career of pervading, united
l prosperity and happiness. I can express no bet
ter wish for you and for my country than that
these may be your and her posessions. Renewing
to you, gentlemen, my grateful acknowledgments,
I bid you good night.
The Hon. Robert Tooub3 has accepted the
invitation extended to him by the Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic party of this county, to
be present at the Democratic meeting, to be held
in this city on the Bth inst. The speech which
he will deliver on the occasion, will be published
iu full, iu this paper.
Rev. J. E. Ryerson. —The Atlanta (Ga.) 7em
perance Crusader , of the Ist inst., thus speaks of
our townsman : “Furman University, located
at Greenville, S. C., %t its recent commence
ment, conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of
divinity upon Rev. J. E. Ryerson, of Augusta, Ga.
Ilisjfervid eloquence, deep piety, and unabated zeal
in the performance of his Ministerial duties have
won for him the confidence and respect of Christians
everywhere, while his polished address and manly
deportment render him the delight of all refined
circles. He is universally esteemed by all classes,
irrespective of denominational names. We
speak of hint not as a denominational man, but as
a Christian minister. ” •
News items from the Savannah (Ga.) Morn
m Nem, of Sept. 3:
New Jailor. —The new iailor, Waring Russell,
Esq., was sworn in yesterday, and takes charge of
the premises this morning.
The New Schooner William Hauler. — The new
and beautiful schooner, named in honor of ourss-< ■
teemed fellow-citizen, William Hunter, Esq.,
the firm of Hunter A Gammell, reachedAfWs port
yesterday morning, with a cargo of mer
chandise, having made the trip in five days. The ;
Wm. Hunter was built at Deep #iver, Conn.,
by E. Dennison. She registers twoTiundred and '
ninety-eight tons; length of keell, one imndred 1
and thirteen feet; length on deck, one hundred and ‘
thirty fec-t'she is double decked; depth of bbld, £
sixteen feet. She is owned.here and ia New York. *
by Mr. Hunter and others, and is commanded by !
Capt. Timothy Baker, being intended for the 1
trade between Savannah and New York. f
Ojttonfrom Eufaula. —We learn that Messrs. E. J
C. Wade & Co., of this city, have had consigned I
to them four bales of new cotton from Eufaula, *
Ala., the first ever shipped from that point to this D
market. We also learn that there is a probability 8
that other shipments of cotton to Savannah will be 7
made from that section during the season, and *
trust, now that the railroad connection is so near- n
Iv unbroken, that the cotton buyers End sellers of P
that part of Alabama and Georgia will at least c '
give our market a fair trial.
The four bales above alluded to, were the first ?
received at Eufaula this season, Other receipts 5
since swell the number up to twenty bale?. A '
private letter before us states that the probable re- J
ceipts at that point will be thirty-five thousand “
bales.
w
JjgT* The Savannah Atoruing News, of Sept. 3d,
says: *,
A Lousiana gentleman, named A. J. Donaldson, d
haring recently died, some of the papers hare a
confounded him with Maj. A. J. Donaldson, the tl
American candidate for the Vice-Presidency in a
285t1. This is a mistake. Maj. Donaldson is now s'
living in or near Memphis, Tenn. j>
[communicated.]
The Aurora Borealis.
Mr. Editor:. I was aroused early this morning,
(if between two and three o’clock can be regarded 1
by your citizens as an early time), by one of my
household, who informed me that there was a very
bright light in the atmosphere, apparently in the
neighborhood of Augusta, and fears were express
ed that your city was enveloped in flames. After
looking at the light fora few moments, I was satis
fied that it was the Aurora Borealis, or Northern
Light, which had recently been seen at the North,
and which had so materially interfered with the
currents on the magnetic telegraph line between
Quebec aDd Farther Point, on the 29th of August.
The Aurora last night was very distinctly seen
at one o’clock, and was brightly light until after
two o’clock. After that time, it assumed a bright
scarlet hue, and lit up the dome of heaven with its
resplendent hues. It was a magnificent atmos
pheric spectacle; and while it afforded pleasure to
tbejscientific observer, it was doubtless the cause
of -trepidation and awe to thousands. The
light was seen until after four o’clock, A. M., and
was followed bv darkness.
We believe iftjMfenerally conceded that the au
rora is caused by certain conditions of electrical
influences; and although seldom seen in southern
latitudes, perhaps was nevermore brilliant or gor- ,
geous than early this morning. It is generally
succeeded by pleasant clear weather; and we hope 1
that the recent phenomenon will not prove an ex
ception to the usually observed weather following (
such atmospheric exhibitions. P.
September 2nd, 1859.
[communicated.]
Jones and Wright at Lincolnton.
Mr. Editor: According to appointment, Messrs.
Jones and Wright met here to-day. I propose to
give you a short account of the discussion; not
1 designing to enter into detail, as 1 would not cause
- the public to anticipate iu full the pleasure they
will experience when these gentlemen appear be
fore them in person. Mr. Jones opened in a speech
ol one hour and a halfiMr. Wright followed for the
space of two hours, and Mr. Jones concluded in
■ half aii hour. The opening speech of Mr. Jones
was a close, compact, and argumentative exposi
-1 tiou aud defence of the principles of the Demo
cratic party, interspersed occasionally with well
, timed anecdotes. He commenced wuh the first
. wailing cries of the infant Sam; followed him
[ through his premature manhood; exposed his fal
tering steps in his last days—and proved conclu
t sively, that the old man, though killed and buried,
j had left behind him a representative in his son,
, whom his crest-fallen hangers-on had dubbed
with the anomalous, unmeaning—all-meaning cog
t nmuen “Opposition.” He knew that the relation of
t Sam’s biography would verv much chagrin his
, honorable competitor; but as Mr. Wright was try
' ing to place in power his hopeful son, Opposition,
it became a part of the questions before the pub
lic, notwithstanding the efforts of the party to
* keep Sam and his principles in the back ground.
£ They had deceived the people once with the tale
that nothing was to be feared from the memory
of Sam; he warned them to be not deceived again;
" because, when once in power, they would put into
practical operation' all the ruinous principles
which Sam advocated in his best days.
)t Mr. Jones was peculiarly happy in this relation,
and elicited the trequent applause of the audience.
* From tin*. hu y»ww»<i to tk»© Sme-bonomi prlocl-
K pies of the Democracy owed up the Kansti
“ bill, as truthfully construed by the great conserra-
F tive party of the nation ; portrayed, with glowing
eloquence, the great principle achieved by the
South, in the passage of the bill, strengthened, as
J n had been, by the decision of the highest tribu
nal of the country, in the Dred Scott case, lie
then passed to the Cincinnati platform—paid an
eloquent tribute to Gov. Brown—and concluded
m with a forcible and telling appeal to the people to
' stand by the Constitution and the country.
[ Mr. Wright endeavored to neutralise the effect
* of Mr. Jones’ relation of Sam’s history, by telling
’ the humorous anecdote of an old possum, who, al
ter being well roasted in an oven, was, upon re
moving the lid, discovered by bis owner, to be
“sitting up on his haunches, eating up all the sop.’
I think the possum story peculiarly applicable to
his party, in one sense ; for they are the - greatest
people to play possum I ever saw. Kill them un-
Jer one name, and presently they rise up under
another—at first, the “Order of the Star Spangled
Banner,” they soon became “Union”—first, “Sam,”
then “American”—aud their last feat they expect
to perform through the magic, high sounding
term, “Opposition.”
Mr. Wright’s speech was anything but argu
mentative; he is calculated to please the pub
public by his inimitable attitudes and gestures on
the stand, aud by his happy faculty of relating an
ecdotes.
I agree with a gentleman, who, when I asked
him howffe liked Wright’s speech, replied, that ;
he would be a valuable acquisition to a theatrical
corps in the performance of farces.
In 1856, when Col. Wright spoke at Lincolnton,
he read a set of resolutions introduced by Mr.
Lang, and advocated by Mr. Strother, in an Ameri
can meeting. On that occasion, he followed Mr.
Lang in debate ; and of course Mr. L. could sav
nothing. On this occasion, Mr. W. read the same
resolutions. The resolutions were ottered in the
earliest days of Know Nothingism, and they were
repudiated by the author as early as the 19th of
August, 1855. Why did not Mr. Wright inform
the public of that fact, aud tell Mr. Lang’s reasons
for withdrawing from the order, as expressed in
his letter to the Constitutionalist ? Why did he not
state, that Mr. Lang had never been a morn Know
Nothing ? Why did he not state that Mr. Strother
had abandoned the rotten order, when they turned
their batteries against the Kansas bill, and de
clared the repeal of the Missouri compromise a
Pandora’s box, and unconstitutional ?
Fair play, Col., and you’ll cut a better figure—
and be enabled to bear your approaching defeat
with better grace. The main design of this un
warranted attack upon these two gentlemen, whose
mouths were closed on this occasion, was simplv
to stir up the dying cinders of that political hatred
which had been visited upon them by the Know
things in 1855 and 1856. If the Col. will read
J wr. Lang’s letter and Mr. Strother’s essay over ifie
signature of “ Anti-Know Nothing,” he will dis
cover m them arguments, that he cannot explain '
away during his whole canvass. So much for Mr.
Wright’s digression. But, oh ! horror! Mr Bu
chanan has stopped all the country mails, discon
tinued all the country post offices—and schooled
Africau negroes of theschooner Echo. Murder
and thunder! Raw-head and Bloody Bones! The
poor man can’t get his letters now! He wont pay
the contractors; and then Douglas sends two
hundred thousand documents through the mails—
ah ! Col., you don't like the documents. You didn’t
like Stephens’ documents: and when Jones goes
to Congress you wont like Jones’ documents.
But hear, Georgians, Wright’s answer’s: “Send
me to Congress, and I will have a part of the
stealings; and send lots of documents, too.’*" If
you get there, Col, send them on. I don’t
think they’ll do much harm—they wont be
noticed. These, he stated, were his princi
ples!!! He was independent of all parties. The
convention in Augusta did not nominate, but re
commended Aim. Now, Mr. Editor, I would not
have taken the trouble to write out this report;
but as vou will hear another version from Mr.
Wright's minstrel, the Editor of the neutral Eve
ning Dispatch , I don’t think it proper they should
have things their own way * * “ *
The Col. concluded in a brilliant peroration; and
was, I must gay, eloquent in his froth. But
when our gallant little champion arose,
and in his concluding reply, the froth aud
foam, mist and vapor generated by the Indepen
dent-no-party orator vanished as quickly
as like materials do before the scorching rays of
the mid-summer’s sun. Armed with repartee and
argument—and truths that have been indelibly
stumped upon Democratic creed and Democratic
policy—he unveiled the sophistry and delusive |
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traps of the Oppositioo, and exposed its deceit and
error, rendering more attractive and resplendent
'he principles which he advocated, and} which he
assured us he would ever be found defending. He
concluded amid the deafening applause of his
enthusiastic and sanguine friends.
Georgians of the Eighth District, choose ye be
tween tbenj- If you aesiie a man who repudiates
you and all parties, has no principles, and says, if
w ,9 ul eCt T? as Phases, vote for
\V right. If you want a man who has put the seal
of condemnation upon Know Nothingism, and Op
position, and every other ism opposed and design
ed to destroy Democracy ; who will carry out the
same designs and measures; and who will, and
does advocate the same principles as Toombs, and
Stephens, and Johnson, and the hostof Georgia’s
illustrious Democratic brotherhood ; if you want
a man who acknowledges a party—gives to that
party his pledges, and says he intends to legis
late for the weal of his country, and to stand firm,
to the rights of his beloved South ; if you want a
man true and faithful,able and eloquent— vote ve for
the gallant Jones. Your banner will be safe in his
hands—hands that will never permit it to be soiled,
or to trail in the dust beneath the feet of the Op
position. _ Hornet.
From the N. F. Evening Poet, August 50.
The Aurora Horealfs at Schooley’s*
Mountain.
Heath’House, Schooley’s ft* JUN TADC, N. J., )
August 20, 1859. )
Last evening there was at this place an exhibition
of the Aurora Borealis, as remarkable as it was
magnificent. Its great beauty and peculiar char
acter make it worthy of record. The sky during
the middle and after part of the day had been
clear, the temperature from seventy degrees to sev
enty-four degrees. About eight o’clock in the eve
ning the first appearance of the Aurora was seen
in a white, luminous and increased light in the
sky, due North. This white light gradually spread
out towards the East and West, and slowly ascend
ed towards the zenith, but preserved its original
character free from rays. Presently it changed in
the North-east to a light crimson, giving the sky
the appearance that it presents when tnere is a
great conflagration at a distance. At the same
time an arch of white light, well defined and a lit
tle separated from the crimson-colored portion, ran
across the whole sky, from horizon to horizon,
bounding the Aurora, ou the South side, by a tol
erable sharp line. The Aurora then faded some
what, and changing from time to time, assumed
the ordinary appearances until a little after ten
o’clock, when it suddenly underwent a total change
and presented It in its most magnificent form.
First, then, shot up directly from the horizon to the
zenith a single broad band of white light, clear and
bright as a moonbeam, then another and another
one on each side of the first, until five or six of these
white rajs were visible, each well defined, all reach
ing from the horizon to the zenith. Then ou the
east appeared a broad crimson ray shooting upward
in the same manner, then a white ray, then a crim
son , all terminating at a point in the zenith. These
rays continued to flash out, upward in this manner,
moving from the North uround through the East
and South, until the whole circle was completed—
a union made at the North-west, where a single red
ray, broad and deep-colored, remained for a long
time unchanged, through which appeared the
bright star Arcturus The South part of the circle
differed from the rest in the rays not reaching to
the horizon ; they seemed to shoot down for about
two-thirds of the open sky. A very beautiful
change now took place. Over the white rays col
umns of red light ran up in some places, the white
showing through, in others the reel predominating,
• until the whole sky was lit up with this variegated
i and beautiful coloring. Here the rays seemed
twisted, red and white intertwined, then a broad
, red space, then one of white. I® <mc place the ,
. red and iMatag up together narrow threads
- nf light, then mingling, and cratffog, and twisf
i iug r t>gefher in <?ooo«?.vAi>J* aaa
- in the moat beautiful forms. All the time the rays
? ivere gathering thicker about the zenith, until at
i last the sky assumed the appearance of a vast can
i opv of white and red curtains of the most delicate
and exquisite texture and coloring, hanging from
a point in the centre in graceful beuding fold. At
this moment the central point opened, the rays as
it were parted and left a small circular space clear,
through which the blue sky and the star could be
seen,and from the edge of which the curtaining ravs
fell on all sides. This was the climax of the
phenomena, and from this time the Aurora grad
ually faded until nothing peculiar remained in its
appearance, although the sky was lit up by it more
or less during tbe night.
Every one who beheld it said they had never
seen an Aurora by any means so wonderful and
magnificent. L. B.
Itera3 of news from the Savannah Republi
can, September 2d:
New Cotton. —Fourteen bales of new cotton ar
rived yesterday, by the steamer Jno. A. Moore,
from Augusta.
Accident. —Yesterday afternoon, while the men
were engaged in putting up the roof of the Afri
can Baptist church, in ftlontgomery, between Bry
an and St. Julian streets, the scaffold, being poor,
gave way and fell with a loud crash, taking with it
three colored men, Joe Williams, Gcu. Thompson,
and Jim Sims. Fortunately none appeared to be
seriously hurt, though they were injured some
what internally.
Another.— A young lad, by the name of Rowe
Cullen, an apprentice at the shop of Mr. JI. A Lin
ville, had his arm accidentally broken yesterday
morning by being caught by a leather band which
turned the' drilling machine, and which he was
trying to stop.
We find the following paragraph.? in the
Baltimore Sun, of Aug. 29th :
The Steamboat Express Outrage. —Some days
since Acting Mayor Ford directed Deputy Marshal
Manly to investigate the facts connected with the
outrages on the colored passengers on board the
steamboat Express, on the occasion of the excur
sion to the Lloyd’s Springs camp-meeting, od the
night of the 20th instant, and to arrest any and all
parties who were suspected or known to have par
ticipated in them. On Saturday George Deford
was arrested, and identified by Capt. Co!mary as
having been on board the boat and wearing a
white handkerchief around his neck, as did those
who were engaged in the assaults on the colored
passengers, lie was held to bail in tbe sum of
one thousand dollars for a hearing on to-morrow
morning, his father having come his surety. Yes
terday morning two others, John Cosgrove and
George Howard, were also arrested on the same
charge, and committed to jail in default of one
thousand dollars bail, each for a hearing at the
I same time appuinted for Deford. The deputy
I marshal has obtained the names of a number of
witnesses who were on board the boat at the time
of the outrage, and at ten o’clock to morrow morn
ing the investigation will be taken up. Yester
day afternoon another party, named Wm. Reese,
was arrested, and he will be held for an examina
tion at the same time with the others.
The Aurora Borealis.— From twilight until ten
o’clock last night the whole heavens were lighted
by the aurora borealis, more brilliant and beauti
ful than had been witnessed for years before. Its
first appearance was just above the North-eastern
horizon, when it had the appearance of a reflec
tion from fire. Shortly afterwards it spread east
wardly, of a deep red color, with streaks of light
shooting through it, and it continued to increase
until the light was almost as bright as from a full
moon. A little later it appeared at the North-west
with the same brightness, which continued for
more than an hour. The light streaks shot up
ward from the horizon, and varied in width and
length, and changed as long as the phenomenon
was visible. If was a grand sight, and was wit
nessed by thousands of persons, many of whom
never saw the like before.
Incendiarism.— About dust, on W - *^27
ning, the furniture warehouse of Messrs. Jefferson
& Hamilton, on Broad street was discovered t«
be on tire The Bre iras in the cellar, and must
have been communicated by an incendiary. The
firemen were soon at the spot, and with some aitn
cultv succeeded in getting at the fire, which they
I extinguished with the loss of only a little ‘crni
[ ture. — Columbus ( Ga.) Enquire* Sept 2,